I am a bit dismayed about you or anyone stopping to contribute to FindaGrave just because it was sold to Ancestry.com. FaG has built in funding sources but it has outgrown its owners probably limited resources. Ancestry is probably acting in a White Knight capacity as anything else. RootsWeb was purchased by Ancestry years ago and the free RW services are still free.
Any trees created by non-professional (and even many professional) researchers are going to have errors. No one is perfect. I think that some of the changes in L8 are designed to make it easier for researchers to see the error of their ways.
PP Alerts are not a distraction, but a call to action.
Duplicate checking when adding people to your family file is a great way to keep your data better.
But no one is perfect. Anything I get in an ancestry, RW, of FS tree is a clue that needs to be researched and verified.
Last night, I found two headstones for the same person on FaG. In two different states. And without the help of the 1000s of FaG volunteers, I would not have that data.
john.
At 01:04 PM 12/15/2013, Syble Glasscock wrote:
Yes, Family Search is now free, and I've greatly benefited by their website and work, I've volunteered some, but, I too am frustrated with their trees, just as I am with ancestry.com trees, so many duplications and so many errors, it's a daunting task trying to get the corrections made.
Many of us also have spent many hours adding to Findagrave, yes it too is free, but for how long, as many of your know it's now been sold to Ancestry.com. My fear is that Family Search will also be sold, so I've decided it's not worth the effort and I've added very little to Findagrave since I heard of the sale, I've gained much from that website also. I'm all about helping and even paying for sponsorship of pages or trees, but having others to pay for what I've freely given is not fair in my opinion.
Syble
On Saturday, December 14, 2013 11:02 PM, Paul Gray <graypa...@outlook.com> wrote:
- Bryan,
- I sometimes get frustrated with the quality of FS Family Tree data, but it is what it is. It will only get cleaned up if we do it, no one else will.
- The main reason I correct and merge records of my ancestors is that I want the data on my ancestors to be correct and widely available for future generations. I believe Family Search to be the best bet to be a system that is maintained and available indefinitely. And it is free to all. I am not LDS so I donât use any of the ordinance tracking.
- It will take time. Iâm only looking at direct ancestors (grandparents) for now. No uncles, aunts, cousins etc. Yet.
- Iâm in no rush. When it gets overwhelming, I remember the old saying. âHow do you eat an elephant?â. âOne bite at a time.â.
- But, there are many who feel as you do. Just uncheck options 1.8 and 1.9 and you wonât even know itâs there.
- Paul Gray
- From: Bryan Pratt [ mailto:brya...@slingshot.co.nz]
- Sent: December-14-13 8:46 PM
- To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
- Cc: Legacy
- Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Search and Legacy
- After ploughing along for some hours (a lot of hours) working with my Legacy family file and Family Searchâs database, Iâve decided Iâm not going to do Family Searchâs work of spending copious hours of cleaning up their rubbishy data collection.
- I started out hoping to help FS - I have benefitted from a lot of their data - and then to also pick up more data for my own family file.
- But no longer am I going to trawl through for example 15 odd Margaretâs because they could be duplicates of my (already surnamed ) Margaret. The FS database needs to be cleaned out of idiotic entries like using the above: e.g âMargaret, born, such and such date. Is yours the same?â, when you have already inputted that she was born in Ireland and married in USA.
- The FS program is so user unfriendly. No ability to copy/paste for edit fields (except keyboard), the merge colours are hopeless to differentiate, the continuous re-check of duplicates is so time consuming; to name but a few.
- Iâm not an LDS member, and I feel we are being used to sort their agenda. Somehow in this amalgam of Legacy and Family Search, I feel Iâve ended up being a servant of the LDS to further their end.
- The Legacy Family Tree software and the religious agenda need to be separated.
- Bryan
- NZ
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